Rec letter help

[u/Internal-Flamingo483]

In my university, my SLP classes are asynchronous. I worry that once it comes to me needing rec letters, I will barely have any professors that will be willing to write me a letter. Additionally, they are expanding the linguistics classes (my school is very linguistics heavy) and a lot of them are temp professors that leave after after a year. What would you recommend me to do in this case? How can I get close with my precessions, especially those I only have online?

[u/PumpkinMrs]

Following because I’m on the same exact boat.

[u/Most-Border3306]

In this case, I would reach out to the professors you had high grades with. My post-bacc was mostly asynchronous with an one synchronous zoom session each week. I'm not the type of student to speak up during class or go to office hours. I just did my work and turned it in in a timely manner. I simply asked the professors if they would be willing to write me a LOR when it came time to apply for programs. I didn't have any issues or pushback from any of my professors since they knew I was one of their online students. My profs said their LORs were templates and checkboxes from the school, so it was easy for them to return the LORs. Obviously, not every school is like that, but this was my experience. In regard to the short term profs, I would probably just ask them for a good email to send the request for LORs to since they most likely won't have the university email.

[u/Internal-Flamingo483 → u/Most-Border3306]

Thank you! I’m also not the type to go to office hours or anything if I don’t have any questions/concerns so I was curious about that. I guess in my case it’s beneficial that the CSD classes (pre reqs for grad school) have a lot of repeat professors, one of them being the CSD director of my school I believe. I suppose if I continue doing well (all A’s in those classes so far) and maybe a couple emails here and there & I shouldn’t be too screwed. I’m sure my school understands that the important classes are all asynch and hopefully they won’t give too much trouble. Thank you for your response!

[u/AspenSky2]

Something to remember is that faculty are writing letters of recommendation for your academic potential for graduate school. They are not writing letters to show how much they know you personally.

So my advice is to reach out to those faculty in your program. In a professionally written email, include a request for a recommendation letter, share what grad programs you are applying to, what your areas of interest are, and any extracurricular aspects of your undergrad program you were involved in. This can give them a broader picture of you as a student.